Student found not guilty of manslaughter in drug shooting

Abdulhamid Wehbe has been found not guilty of manslaughter in the 2010 drug shooting of Yazdan Ghiasvand Ghiasi, who was 16 at the time.

Abdulhamid Wehbe, 22, is now a second-year university student at Carleton University. (Judy Trinh/CBC)

Ghiasi was found dumped from a car on Booth Street south of Somerset Street West in December 2010, bleeding from a gunshot wound. He was later pronounced dead in hospital.

Prosecutors alleged that a group including Wehbe never intended to pay for a purchase of six and a half pounds of marijuana.

Wehbe, now a 22-year-old university student studying law, testified in his own defence last month after a failed attempt to get his manslaughter charge dropped because Wehbe wasn't in the car at the time of the shooting.

At the time, Ontario Court Judge Hugh Fraser rejected the claims, saying the trial must continue.